Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 270

I’m glad to climb back into the safety of the SUV with James after leaving the meeting with Ryker.

There wasn’t much left to say after Ryker made his ultimatum. He’s not going to help me get the Al tech back, not if it means moving against his mate.

I know I should heed his warning.

No one in their right mind pits themselves against the Old

Country Wolves and expects to survive.

But the tech–and whatever damage it might do is my

responsibility.

My family built it, and my family lost it.

No matter the cost, I have to get it back. Then decide whether to hand it over to the military like it was supposed to be, or destroy it and tell the military that the project failed.

“This isn’t good, Leah,” James says once we start driving.

“Tell me about it,” I mutter despondently. “But it doesn’t change things.”

“It doesn’t?” James says incredulously. “Leah, you heard Ryker. If you go after Karolina, he will come for you. Even Aaron was smart enough not to cross the Old Country Wolves.”

“In the past, maybe,” I reply, ignoring the tightness in my chest and the tears that prick my eyes. “But if he was here now, I know he’d be thinking about doing exactly that.”

God, I wish Aaron was here right now.

My entire body aches with wanting my mate.

My heart and soul are in agony, wounded in a way I know I’m never going to recover from. Not until I meet Aaron again in the next life.

“Things are different now,” I keep going, shoving all those

feelings down to be dealt with later when I can be alone. “The

tech and be done with it. We have to get it back. Could

if the tech got used and

thousands–maybe even millions–of people died?

whoever has it started turning

Would you still be able to look

not

deaths?”

looks grim. “No, you’re right. I couldn’t live

we going to do?”

a start,” I reply. “We’ll just have to

and I spend a few minutes mulling over my thoughts.

a way to track Karolina’s car? Or better yet, her cell phone? Maybe even both.”

doesn’t look happy about my idea, but then again,

not that hard.”

Good.

feel like

Karolina knows where the missing tech is,

on it–or, god forbid–get ready to use

go

1. it.

give us a good idea of all the places she goes to, and then

places ourselves and see if

us anywhere.

time we get back to

goodnight, and we go our

check on Ethan, but he’s sleeping soundly in his crib across the hall in the

Aaron’s room, then into

want to wash the day away before I go to bed.

mattress and collapse in the middle, dragging the blankets over myself and

pillows.

catch the faintest hint of Aaron’s scent and

one day soon it’ll be gone, just

future, I won’t even remember what he smells like any longer.